On Friday 02 February 2001 03:31, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday I upgraded from KDE 2.0 to 2.01 via the mandrake update facility
> (not from the KDE FTP site). At first all seemed well but then I found I no
> longer had sound. Then I noticed that I couldn't access ny floppy or cdrom
> drives from Win4Lin which I use to run some Windows programs.
>
> I had a look at the permissions in the /dev directory and discovered that
> all devices were owned by root. In other words, when I logged in as an
> ordinary user the permissions had not been changed to allow me to use
> devices such as audio.
>
> I did a bit of homework and learned that this is normally achieved by
> /libs/security/pam_console.so which reads /etc/security/console.perms in
> which is specified the devices to which an ordinary user should have
> access.
>
> I suspected that the problem may be with kdm, the KDE login manager so I
> changed the login manager to gdm (edited /etc/sysconfig/desktop), the Gnome
> login manager and this solved the problem, i.e., as an ordinary user I now
> own devices such as audio.
>
> I am surprised that others have not mentioned having the same problem as
> this has happened every time I have tried upgrading to 2.01 but until now I
> had not figured out what was going on.
>
> Any clues as to a remedy?
I have no clues for a remedy, but I experience the some of your problems. I
also have no sound, when I use a graphical login manager (I use KDM; I
haven't tried another graphical login manager yet). When I login with
runlevel 3 (full multi user mode) and then start X, then I I have sound again.
I have no problems with accessing my cdrom. I can mount, read and unmount my
cdrom as a normal user.
However I experience an other problem. I cannot browse the Internet with
Konqueror. Every time I go to a site Konqueror crashes.
Greeting,
Glencannon
